Stress (in life and relationships) and repetitive motions (e.g., in our occupation) have similar effects: we tighten or get tight so often or for so long that our brain -- the master-control organ of our muscular system -- learns to hold muscles tight indefinitely, automatically, habitually, and ultimately, beyond our ability to relax them.
For example, a car mechanic may develop back spasms or neck pain; a haircutter may develop wrist, hand or shoulder pain; a massage therapist may develop low back pain, and and wrist pain, or leg pain; someone with a stressful job or home life may develop headaches -- and of course, joint pain due to overcompression by tight muscles is common among the general population; they call it, "arthritis".
A person going through a life crisis may emerge with new tensions, restricted breathing, and low energy.
We forget how we used to be and get stuck in a strange new condition. The burn of muscle fatigue and stiffness become permanent. Inflammation, chronic fatigue, and joint degeneration commonly occur as long-term side-effects of that tension. Stress-related symptoms such as headaches or sciatica or other symptoms occur, seemingly inexplicably.
Not Aging, Genetics, or Mechanical Causes
Most often, when symptoms become chronic, people (and professionals) attribute the condition to aging, genetics, or mechanical causes -- erroneously.Despite these symptoms, including pain, we may have no injury, in the sense of damaged flesh or bone. The damage may have healed, long ago; the life crisis may have passed, but we may remain stuck with the residue of injury and/or stress because of memory-caused tension or stress-reaction.
Because tight muscles cause pain and stiffness, because your brain controls your muscles, any therapy, to be effective, must address muscular activity at the brain (i.e., memory) level.
Clinical somatic education has advantages over drugs or therapy applied to soft tissue and joints: much less pain during therapy and faster improvement.
For most cases of chronic musculo-skeletal pain, methods that use the brained-based pandicular response, such as Hanna Somatic Education® and possibly, others, is sufficient as a stand-alone rehabilitation method.
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